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Successful coach has new job

New school, new job

BY LARRY BRENNAN
lbrennan@saukvalley.com
800-798-4085, ext. 550

Aug. 2, 2013

The timing could not have been more perfect for Josh Knuth.

After last season, Knuth – a successful basketball coach and assistant football coach at West Carroll – had decided it was time to walk away from coaching to focus on getting an administrative position.

Just down the road in Fulton, the River Bend School Board had decided to combine its atheltic and athletic director position for the district with the assistant principal position at Fulton High School.

The change required a Type 75 advanced administrative certificate required for the assistant principal position. Then athletic director Dererk Germann did not have that certificate. Germann remains with the district as a driver's education and physical education teacher, as well as cotinuing as an assistant football coach.

Knuth did have the certificate, making him a perfect candidate for the job.

Knuth was the boys basketball coach at Savanna and West Carroll the past 12 seasons. His teams went 240-130. West Carroll qualified for state under Knuth in 2007.

He was also an assistant football coach for 11 years.

"I actually stepped away from coaching before I got the job," Knuth said. "I wanted to focus more on getting an administrative job."